The sailing boat, a treatise on sailing boats and small yachts, their varieties of type, sails, rig, etc. With practical directions for sailing and management; also, the one-design and restricted classes, fishing and shooting boats, sailing chariots and ice yachts, foreign and colonial boats, canoes, etc., etc (1901)
Folkard, Henry Coleman, 1827-1914 · London, Edward Stanford · leaf 174
of water, signs of a sqnall may generally be seen on the surfacesome few moments before it reaches and strikes the sails of the boat; and at sea a squallmay sometimes be seen at a distance of many miles; in which case there is usually timefor shortening sail before its effects are felt; but in… … From a photo by Mr. Hill Charley. suggest a means of avoiding their dangerous effects on an open boat; except, thatdouble caution should be taken that the main-sheet is always ready to be let go in aninstant, whenever sailing anywhere near high land; for squalls sometimes comesweeping down the…
Sailing · Boats and boating
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